Apollo 10 leaves the VAB behind as it heads towards pad 39B
The Apollo 10 mission was to be the all up test for the first manned Moon landing mission. The crew would do everything the first landing mission would do - except touch down on the Moon.
The key objectives were to be a full test of the Lunar Module in Moon orbit and perhaps the most nerve wracking of all manoeuvres, the rendezvous and docking of the Lunar and Command modules a quarter of a million miles away over the surface of the Moon. As ever, there was no hope of rescue if anything went wrong.
We'll meet the crew in a couple of days, then join us for the launch on May 18th.
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